We Went To The Woods: A Novel

"Twenty-something Mackenzie – calling herself Mack – flees her suburban upbringing to join a kind of millennial experiment, a cloud-cuckoo-land commune in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. She sees herself and the other 20-something communards as “survivalists,” determined to live off the grid. “We were abuzz,” she enthuses – and variations on ecstatic togetherness recur, forming delightful tableaus or ominous danger signs, depending on the reader’s level of cynicism. A sharp, spellbinding cautionary tale, the novel reminds us that even those who do remember the past might also wind up repeating it."